Is that photo of Rob in red underwear a real photo from his modeling days or a fake?

This shot has been floating around for some time now and appears on gossip blogs every so often and starts another round of “real or manip?” questions and comments. One of the things generally agreed on is that the underwear in question is from American Apparel: their Baby Rib Men’s Brief (4415) to be exact.  But is that a photo of Rob?

The Evidence

Hmmm…that face looks familiar doesn’t it?

Yes, it does.  In fact, it’s from a picture of Rob from his appearance at the February 2006 Collectormania. The hair is quite distinctive and matches up with this photo.

The larger original is shown below.  You can see it was tilted just a bit, the face cropped out, and added to the body.

The Verdict

As you can see from the Collectormania photo, the Rob in underwear shot is definitely a photo manipulation. In fact, in the comments of this article at The Hollywood Gossip, a user named “Amanda Mera” claims to be the one who created the manip.

This picture is fake. I made it. And the original photo is of an american apparel underwear model. And please note, that the original photo is tagged with the url: http://www.myspace.com/diggory_is_legend

Now whether that claim is true, we cannot say.  After some digging, LR, a helpful friend, passed along a screenshot of  the original American Apparel ad.

There you go.  It’s a very good manipulation…but a manip nevertheless.  BUSTED.

Tags: model, photos

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